I saw Mark Wood perform up close, met him, talked to him, and had my picture taken with him. What a thrill! He travels around the country to high schools as part of his Electrify Your Strings program, and he was at a school not very far from me.

I’ve mentioned him in past posts, and several tracks from his CD’s are on Violin Bitch’s playlist.

I love what he is doing, getting kids excited about rock music with strings. What he is doing is the reason for my deciding to go in the direction I am.

I told him of my difficulty in finding someone to teach me what he does. He told me there are seminars (or whatever he called them) around the country for teachers.